O' Canada

Day one of our journey and already it has proved to be exciting. It seems that our luggage did not make it on the flight to Korea and is expected to arrive in 24 hours (about 8 hours after we fly out for Vladivostok). Don't worry, we have been assured that it is 'somewhere in the world' and can be tracked. So, after travelling for roughly 15 hours we spent 2.5 hours in Air Canada's Korea office trying to figure out how to get our baggage to Petropavlovsk sometime before the end of April. We decided to travel on as scheduled sans luggage. Our hope if that our luggage will arrive in Korea tomorrow in the early evening, then go on to Vladivostok on Korea Air where it will be flown via Vladivostok Air to Petropavlovsk 2 days after we arrive, or April 6th - at least this is how we left it with Air Canada this evening.

I have to say Air Canada was very helpful and even kind enough to allow us to call our contacts in Russia to get some guidance. In doing so, we learned it has been unseasonable warm and the snow is melting. Hmmmmm. This is supposed to be a backcountry ski trip.... If nothing else, we decided we would just take to drinking.